Descriere

This plugin prevents WordPress from adding its own sitemaps.

Also stops WordPress from adding a sitemap rule to the virtual robots.txt file.

👉 Uses only 1KB of code, so super lightweight, fast, and effective.

Features

Lightweight – only one line of code
Simple to use – activate and done
No settings to worry about
Easy peasy.

About WP Sitemaps

You can check your WP Sitemap located at /wp-sitemap.xml

Your sitemap should look similar to this.

For more information about WP Sitemaps:

Privacy

This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. Thus, this plugin does not affect user privacy in any way.

Disable WP Sitemaps is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author.

Support development

I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books:

And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins:

BBQ Pro – Blazing fast WordPress firewall
Blackhole Pro – Automatically block bad bots
Banhammer Pro – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys
GA Google Analytics Pro – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics
Head Meta Pro – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress
Simple Ajax Chat Pro – Unlimited chat rooms
USP Pro – Unlimited front-end forms

Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thank you! 🙂

Instalare

Installing the plugin

Activate like any other plugin and done. There are no settings, works automatically.

More info on installing WP plugins

Uninstalling

To uninstall/remove the plugin, visit the Plugins screen, deactivate and delete the plugin. This plugin makes no changes to the WP database.

Întrebări frecvente

Why is this useful?

Because many sites add their own sitemaps via dedicated SEO plugins or custom code. So when WordPress adds its own sitemaps, there may be duplicate and/or conflicting sitemaps. Duplicate and conflicting sitemaps are discouraged as they may confuse the search engines. You don’t want to confuse the search engines, do you. Think SEO here.

So you have a choice. To avoid duplicate/conflicting sitemaps, you can either remove your existing sitemap solution, or you can activate this plugin to disable WP’s automatically generated sitemaps.

Or maybe you have a site that does not need sitemaps. Or maybe you just don’t want sitemaps, that’s your business pal. Whatever the reason, this plugin will do the job with a click.

Got a question?

Send any questions or feedback via my contact form

Recenzii

nyxmidnight 7 octombrie 2024

Does exactly what it says on the tin, no bloat, no extraneous (and useless) features. It does one thing and it does that one thing perfectly. Love it.

JJulien 5 iunie 2024

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caroltheo 2 martie 2024

This plugin works very well – does what it says on the tin!

LSBK 25 octombrie 2023

Thank you!

wardencenter 13 februarie 2022

Always worry when something needs to be added to functions.php, because I know I’ll forget about it when a theme update rolls around. Thanks for this simple, and so useful, plugin! It just works. Cheers